{"id":6,"date":"2009-05-14T23:07:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antconcepts.com\/~edashofy\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:01:12","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.antconcepts.com\/~edashofy\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9\" title=\"Eric Dashofy\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/edashofy.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Dashofy\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" \/>Hi!\u00a0 My name is Eric Dashofy.\u00a0 I am a computer scientist with a background in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isr.uci.edu\/architecture\/\">software architecture<\/a> and software engineering. I am the former Deputy CIO of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aero.org\/\">The Aerospace Corporation<\/a>, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in El Segundo, CA.\u00a0 I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/\">The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uci.edu\/\">University of California, Irvine<\/a>, where I worked under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~taylor\/\">Professor Richard N. Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarearchitecturebook.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13 alignright\" title=\"Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/saftp.jpg\" alt=\"Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice\" width=\"150\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m one of the authors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarearchitecturebook.com\/\"><em>Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice<\/em><\/a>, along with Professors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~taylor\/\">Richard N. Taylor<\/a> (UCI) and <a href=\"http:\/\/sunset.usc.edu\/~neno\/\">Nenad Medvidovic<\/a> (USC).\u00a0 It is perhaps the first full-length textbook on software architecture, with a broad and comprehensive treatment of not just architecture itself, but the discipline of software engineering seen with an architecture-centric perspective.\u00a0 My co-authors and I welcome questions or comments on the book, so feel free to contact me directly if you have any!<\/p>\n<p>You can get the book from our publisher, or one of many online retailers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470167742.html\">Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice<\/a> at Wiley.com, our publisher&#8217;s site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Software-Architecture-Foundations-Theory-Practice\/dp\/0470167742\">Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice<\/a> at Amazon.com.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Software-Architecture\/Richard-N-Taylor\/e\/9780470167748\/?itm=1\">Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice<\/a> at Barnes and Noble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Interests and Past Experience<\/h2>\n<p>Although my primary work is in software architecture, I occasionally dabble in other areas.\u00a0 I am particularly interested in intellectual property law, specifically as it relates to software.\u00a0 I consulted for Plaintiff&#8217;s counsel in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/06\/09\/0040210\">Amado v. Microsoft<\/a><\/em>, a software patent infringement case. At work, I also do research in the areas of high performance computing and wireless sensor networks.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact Information<\/h2>\n<p>Please see the <a href=\"contact\/\">contact information page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!\u00a0 My name is Eric Dashofy.\u00a0 I am a computer scientist with a background in software architecture and software engineering. 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